Definition for Dawdle:

• To go trifling about a thing.

Synonyms for Dawdle:

• n.

  •
  • potter.
  •
  • trail,
  • fast.
  •
  • industrious,
  • idle,
  • waste,
  • trifle away,
  • while,
  • wile,
  • fiddle away.
  •dawdle (noun)
  • fall back,
  • lag,
  • dally,
  • linger,
  • fall behind.
  •loaf (noun)
  • idle.

• v.

  •delay; waste time (verb)
  • fool around,
  • drag,
  • tarry,
  • dilly-dally,
  • dally,
  • hang out,
  • amble,
  • diddle-daddle,
  • toddle,
  • lazy,
  • loiter,
  • saunter,
  • laze,
  • warm a chair,
  • hang around,
  • wait,
  • stay,
  • get no place fast,
  • mosey,
  • sit around,
  • procrastinate,
  • loll,
  • loaf,
  • fritter away,
  • bum around,
  • shlep along,
  • idle,
  • lounge,
  • stroll,
  • poke,
  • trifle,
  • lag,
  • scrounge around.
  •motion (verb)
  • linger.
  •procrastinate (verb)
  • dilly-dally,
  • dally,
  • hesitate,
  • filibuster,
  • procrastinate,
  • stall,
  • vacillate.
  •slow (verb)
  • delay,
  • trudge,
  • slow,
  • loiter,
  • creep,
  • poke,
  • crawl,
  • plod,
  • drag,
  • hinder,
  • linger.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • potter,
  • straggle,
  • chug,
  • poke along,
  • sidle.
  •
  • fool around,
  • trail,
  • swan.
  •
  • nudge,
  • meander.
  •
  • inch.
  •
  • drift.
  •
  • waste.
  •
  • ease.
  •
  • process.
  •
  • float.
  •
  • draw.
  •malinger
  • waste time.
  •mess around
  • potter,
  • muck around.
  •procrastinate
  • Shilly-shally,
  • play for time,
  • hang fire.
  •straggle
  • be late.
  •trifle
  • Fribble,
  • lollygag.
  •Other relevant words:
  • drawl,
  • diddle,
  • absorbent,
  • dawdling,
  • flag,
  • prevaricate,
  • putterer,
  • think twice about,
  • swither,
  • flirt,
  • mope,
  • hang on,
  • laggard,
  • kill,
  • jest,
  • butterfly,
  • hold on,
  • be lost,
  • lounger,
  • goof-off,
  • tortoise,
  • industrious,
  • layabout,
  • toddle,
  • limp,
  • sidle,
  • enact,
  • bugger about,
  • hover,
  • fruitless,
  • drag out,
  • Weary Willie,
  • declamatory,
  • imprison,
  • waste time,
  • mash,
  • do-nothing,
  • gaol,
  • take time,
  • butt,
  • lazybones,
  • debate,
  • proceed slowly,
  • fluctuate,
  • vain,
  • ease,
  • tergiversate,
  • hang fire,
  • trail behind,
  • slowpoke,
  • process,
  • wile,
  • procrastinator,
  • time waster,
  • Diddler,
  • jaunt,
  • sleeping partner,
  • cyst,
  • dally with,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • fundament,
  • diddle-daddle,
  • lollygag,
  • stroll,
  • mess about,
  • See-saw,
  • fall back,
  • lengthen,
  • mark time,
  • cruise,
  • lingerer,
  • await,
  • play,
  • loaf,
  • moper,
  • sluggard,
  • hang out,
  • hum and haw,
  • clock watcher,
  • nudge,
  • stay,
  • circumambulate,
  • muck around,
  • egotistical,
  • pass,
  • float,
  • halt,
  • backside,
  • roam,
  • lallygag,
  • stretch out,
  • lounge about,
  • backslide,
  • rove,
  • Haver,
  • blister,
  • chill,
  • spin out,
  • stick around,
  • be late,
  • hold your horses,
  • shamble,
  • microphone,
  • mosey,
  • be about,
  • incarcerate,
  • doodler,
  • lotus-eater,
  • toy,
  • Wabble,
  • lose,
  • lubber,
  • chug,
  • stagger,
  • loiterer,
  • buttocks,
  • chat up,
  • hedge,
  • recur,
  • fast,
  • joke,
  • mill about,
  • potterer,
  • squashy,
  • bum around,
  • drop,
  • lumber,
  • while,
  • resort,
  • remand,
  • drag along,
  • retrogress,
  • walk slowly,
  • egotistic,
  • follow,
  • perambulate,
  • romance,
  • lurk,
  • lounge,
  • idler,
  • coquette,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • truant,
  • lag,
  • immure,
  • crumb,
  • fall behind,
  • vesicle,
  • revert,
  • fool,
  • protract,
  • drop behind,
  • Lubbard,
  • putter around,
  • lie over,
  • bugger,
  • mike,
  • voyage,
  • dillydallier,
  • muck about,
  • put away,
  • falter,
  • extend,
  • trifle away,
  • soggy,
  • saunter,
  • come close to,
  • sit up,
  • potter,
  • bottom,
  • mill around,
  • relapse,
  • pause,
  • lag behind,
  • take one's time,
  • go halfway,
  • grovel,
  • boggle,
  • lagging,
  • lollop,
  • equivocate,
  • drag one's feet,
  • faineant,
  • retire,
  • bide,
  • walk,
  • range,
  • gallivant,
  • goldbricker,
  • dolittle,
  • bide one's time,
  • elapse,
  • stay up,
  • drone,
  • tarry,
  • lug,
  • squishy,
  • slug,
  • dormouse,
  • turgid,
  • stand over,
  • perform,
  • sit around,
  • lie-abed,
  • putter,
  • fanny,
  • take one's own sweet time,
  • slumberer,
  • play for time,
  • trail,
  • swan,
  • swollen,
  • bootless,
  • dally,
  • slugabed,
  • inactive,
  • stray,
  • linger over,
  • teeter-totter,
  • hang about,
  • fool around,
  • wander,
  • coquet,
  • yo-yo,
  • doodle,
  • footle,
  • fritter away,
  • derriere,
  • bloated,
  • snail,
  • prolong,
  • be afraid,
  • recidivate,
  • hindquarters,
  • loll,
  • Mopus,
  • shuffle,
  • Fribble,
  • travel,
  • wait and see,
  • balance,
  • puffy,
  • waddle,
  • loafer,
  • dummy,
  • recede,
  • dillydally,
  • meander,
  • jail,
  • defer,
  • compromise,
  • Loller,
  • get behind,
  • scamp,
  • waste,
  • be irresolute,
  • goof,
  • hang back,
  • philander,
  • hack,
  • Droil,
  • regress,
  • sleepyhead,
  • buns,
  • stonewall,
  • remain,
  • mince,
  • sit tight,
  • lapse,
  • straggle,
  • abide,
  • dallier,
  • sloucher,
  • bombastic,
  • put behind bars,
  • scrounge around,
  • trotter,
  • conceited,
  • alternate,
  • prowl,
  • hobo,
  • demur,
  • hang around,
  • hobble,
  • trifler,
  • piddle,
  • porous,
  • dander,
  • lie about,
  • mooch,
  • scapegrace,
  • draw,
  • move slowly,
  • wait,
  • fiddle away,
  • time,
  • stiff,
  • marmot,
  • plodder,
  • gain time,
  • waver,
  • inch along,
  • hang in suspense,
  • spongelike,
  • shlep along,
  • trifle,
  • dither,
  • idle,
  • warm a chair,
  • jug,
  • continue,
  • dwell on,
  • hold everything,
  • be inactive,
  • yielding,
  • ass,
  • permeable,
  • spongy,
  • hem and haw,
  • Draggle,
  • get no place fast,
  • slowly,
  • ramble,
  • dawdler,
  • drift,
  • lazy,
  • give the run-around,
  • inch,
  • linger on,
  • laze,
  • amble,
  • peregrinate,
  • draw up,
  • mess around,
  • hang,
  • temporize,
  • skulk,
  • bum,
  • traipse,
  • draw out,
  • goldbrick,
  • stick-in-the-mud,
  • inactivity,
  • lazzarone,
  • slouch,
  • lark about,
  • poke along,
  • soft.

Antonyms for Dawdle:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    accelerate, barrel, bowl, breeze, buckle down, catch up, course, dart, dash, drudge, forward, go, grind, grub, hump, hurry, hustle, labor, moil, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake, peg, plod, plow, plug, push, put out, rip, run, scramble, scud, speed up, stampede, sweat, tear, toil, travail, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, work, DO, step on it, slave, make haste, get a move on, hotfoot it, lose no time, fast-forward.

• v.

  • delay; waste time
    forward, hasten, run, speed, go, push, DO, hurry, rush.
  • motion
    rush.
  • Other antonyms:
    dash, plow, labor, dart, hump, accelerate, course, rip, hustle, whisk, whiz, catch up, overtake, run, toil, bowl, barrel, outpace, travail, whirl, plod, breeze, scramble, zip, plug, jog, peg, outstrip, sweat, outrun, work, stampede, grub, scud, quicken, exert, grind, moil, put out, drudge, hurry, trot, tear.